Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...

Walter Russell Mead takes note of the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites, both of whom dislike government bureaucrats (“American Exceptionalism Is Back,” Global View, Jan. 21).

“I don’t know whether there are any moral saints,” the philosopher Susan Wolf once wrote. “But if there are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” Dissolute and ...

Simone Weil once told a student, “What I cannot stand is compromise.” This unyielding stance underpinned the French philosopher’s life and work, which offered profound insights into a pressing issue ...

Amid the firehose of executive orders since Donald Trump reentered the White House, ranging from the return of plastic straws (“paper ones don’t work”) to the return of Mount McKinley (the president ...

Simone Weil, edited by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, trans. from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Belknap, $37.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-29237-6 This inessential collection traces the personal ...